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Warehouse Operative

Location: Bristol Patchway

Hours: 7pm - 7am (4 days on 4 days off)

Contract type: Permanent

Rate: £13.10 per hour (additional: + £2.40 Nightshift Premium, + £1.30 Weekend Premium)

You don’t get to be one of the nation’s largest and most loved supermarkets without a brilliant team — and our warehouse colleagues are central to keeping our warehouses running smoothly, ensuring our customers can buy the goods they need in store.

Being a Sainsbury’s Warehouse Operative is more than picking goods accurately and in perfect condition. It’s about helping your community eat, shop, and live better, all while being part of a family that’s 187,000 people strong. After all, making the best-quality products available in-store for our customers is what we’re about. Just ask the millions of people up and down the country who choose to shop with us every week.

We’re currently recruiting permanent Warehouse Operatives, to work various full and part time shift patterns in our busy chilled and ambient operations. If you’re successful, you may be required to work additional hours to meet the needs of the operation where required.

More about you

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  You have previous experience working as a Warehouse Operative
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  You’ve assisted with the efficient and effective running of a warehouse operation, processing time-critical loading and unloading of supplier consignments
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  You’ll ideally have experience of using Powered Pallet Ride On Trucks/MHE
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  You’re great working as part of a team
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  You’re competent in PC systems

More about the role

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  Accurately carrying out time-critical movements of products
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  Effectively communicating with internal and external customers
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  Working in line with our standard operating procedures
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  Ensuring deadlines are met and KPI’s are achieved and exceeded
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  Ensuring unloading/loading accuracy is maintained at 100%
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  Working in line with our health and safety processes
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  Demonstrating clear and precise written communication
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  General warehouse housekeeping
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  Accurately processing customer returns and rejections
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  Working in line with food safety standards
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  Communicating with our Yard and Office colleagues via radio to ensure a timely operation
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  Temperature checking and logging where required

Your Benefits

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  Pre-planned shifts
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  Season ticket loan after you’ve completed 12 weeks of service and passed your probation
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  Discount card after 4 weeks that gives you 10% off your Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat shopping
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  Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more
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  Cycle to work scheme available
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  Full PPE provided

We know that candidates may be put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box. We also know that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t always doable, and while we can’t accommodate every flexible working request we are happy to be asked. So if you are excited about working with us and think you can do much of what we are looking for but aren’t sure if you are 100% there yet… why not apply and see how it goes?

Here at Sainsbury’s Argos we’re a proud equal opportunities employer that values diversity at every level of our business. Inclusion and Diversity are fundamental to our culture and values, fostering an innovative, collaborative and fast paced work environment that means we can build a better future for our colleagues and our customers. Everyone is welcome at Sainsbury’s Argos.